Three Shires

Hard, hard, hard race! Wiped out from that one, but at the same time, a special feeling at completing my first Lakeland Classic.

The maps do say that the descent from Lingmoor is flagged. But this is a third party, commercial map maker and the marshall I was chatting to told me that it was never flagged from the summit in years pass.

Saw Steve Birkinshaw, the man who broke Joss Naylor's 20+ year record. But even a superman like him came in third. Shows what a top field it was.

Hadn't realised that the race map said it was all flagged - that accounts for some of the disappointment I suppose. I thought it used to get flagged if the junior races were running, but otherwise stayed unflagged.

It hasn't been flagged for the last few years, hopefully it will stay that way despite what the map says.

I'm not sure I agree with flagging other than to avoid private/sensitive land.

Still, flagged or not, it's a fantastic event that Selwyn & his team puts on. Long may it continue.

My first long fell race (you have to start somewhere eh!). I was another who asked "which way?" on Lingmoore as I'd read that it would be flagged, by that point I was quite looking forwards to following tape and flags as my brain was almost as useless as my legs! Managed to find my way to the finish despite almost joining in with the Marathon runners going the opposite direction (it was all a bit confusing wasn't it?!).

Good fun... I have never enjoyed a pastie and a cup of tea more than I did at the end!

A few photos and my race report for the Three Shires Fell Race.

Thank you very much Selwyn and all the volunteers for a hard bu very enjoyable day out!

The hot cheese and onion pie was a nice touch- best tasting pie ever!

I always understood that the flags were only there for for the junior races and it did lead to a bit of confusion sometimes as to whether following them was compulsory or not. The old flagged route probably isn't the fastest way down and I finished ahead of someone who was in front of me on Lingmoor and who I believe followed that while I went another way, rejoining the old route a little before the start of the steep descent/zig zags.
Thanks to Selwyn and everyone else involved.Great route as always.

Thanks Andy Jackson for these great photos!!

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Photos from Three Shires Race 2014

Apologies for the late post, the memory card was corrupt and it took an age to retrieve the files. First attempt at sports photography so there's a few blurry ones. Feel free to download and share. Inbox me if you want a copy of the original raw file.

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Huge thanks to all the organisers and marshals at today's race. Lovely day for it but i now have bad sunburn!

Good Luck to everybody racing today! :)

Thanks. My first Lakes long. And even though it's a short Lakes long, I was still pretty wiped out towards the end. I was hoping for a faster time, but it was quite hot, so I can mentally take off about 20 minutes for "conditions". I'm joking of course, it was dry and the visibility was great. It's my stamina that needs to improve.

Roll on Langdale (eek!).